How do you defeat the Protea Specter?

[IRON5LLAMA]

Ok so how do you kill Protea? I'm Mr8 and have everything fully modded (other than the Xoris because I'm not wasting a catalyst on it) but it seems impossible. I understand how to stop her from resetting herself but my main problem is I take so much damage. I always have like 10 specters shooting at me that I can't kill b/c I never have any energy for abilities and focusing on them lets Protea regen all her shields again. On the few times I've made it to the last health bar I'm always out of revives and out of ammo. Is there something I'm missing?

[_COY_]

Did it with Baruuk on first try.
-c0y

[FunnySeagull]

I did not consider that sorry.

[Soy77]

12 hours ago, FunnySeagull said:

personally I used an orokin catalyst on xoris equipped it with stuff like the magnetic damage combo damage mod lvel 11 for both and max pressure point I also used dex furis and inaros max rank orokin reactor with umbral mods and the effect resistance mods. edit: in additioin my aura mod was steel charge maxed.

Nice tips.

But it's been a year. Probably OP has beaten protea or has quit warframe.

[UUDDLRLRBA_START]

I think you have to do something when she rewinds time. That's the main puzzle

[(PSN)haphazardlynamed]

I'd always been using Glaives+pistol dual wield even before the Xoris

So I just did what I normally do and she died.

?what? there was some special mechanic for this fight? whatever, didn't notice.

[MaddawgTL]

Ivara, charge the xoris on specters then hit Protea when she tries to rewind. Rinse and repeat.

[FunnySeagull]

personally I used an orokin catalyst on xoris equipped it with stuff like the magnetic damage combo damage mod lvel 11 for both and max pressure point I also used dex furis and inaros max rank orokin reactor with umbral mods and the effect resistance mods. edit: in additioin my aura mod was steel charge maxed.

[(PSN)SigarTheGrey]

This may help someone, as I kept trying and failing to kill Protea.

 

 Finally did kill her with Octavia. Octavia 1 ability, drop it somewhere and the spectres and more important protea will be attracted to it and die from it. You just have to keep ability 1 present at all time  ... well when needed of course. 

 Weapons, I only equiped the Xoris, I had the wrong advice that if you do not have a pistol then the mechanics on how you use the Xoris is changed (different buttons on controller). In my case that was not true on PS5 ... so I guess you can equip whatever in addition to the Xoris. 

 One thing I did not understand before ... basically the whole time you have to explode the Xoris too. Not only throw, do also explode. 

Steps are: Kill flying men to charge the Xoris. For this you throw ability 1 on the floor, look towards the flyings men, throw and explode the Xoris. This means you do not need to have good aim. The explosion will kill and charge the Xoris. At three charges move to a blue specter and throw and explode.

Repeat 3 times.

Protea comes. Throw ability 1 on the flow, back away .. .protea attacks it ... charge the Xoris as above on the flying men, throw and explode. Protea dies from attacking your ability 1. When prompted throw and explode the Xoris on her.

Repeat 3 -4 times

You may not have a charged Xoris when protea is already dead from ability 1. Do not panic, take your time to charge it and protea will die again from ability 1. Just keep protea busy with 1 and keep her at a distance.

Good luck Tenno 

 

[-CdG-Zilchy]

By doing a simple search that brings up all the other threads about the exact same thing....

[TheRealPcGamer]

excal flash is the best thing in the world, just use excal umbra

 

[Artisinal_Colonics]

everyone say "I did wiv dis" but noone say akshewally do this thing

[(PSN)ArmyWolf100]

Drilled it with limbo prime 2nd try. I was logged out mid game 1st try lol.

[taiiat]

if you keep moving and keep breaking line of sight to most of the Specters, even just that may be sufficient.
especially if you do bring some form of active way to Heal yourself.

[Oblivionix]

If only operator could wield Xoris, then my Umbra could distract her and that would make the mission so much easier...then again operators are squishy af so it wouldn't matter would it? Some people say mesa and Mesa Prime are the best to use for the last mission with Protea - is that true fellow tenno? someone advise...

[NuclearCoffeePot]

I recomend taking wukong, he has healing, armor boost, and built in death cheat. Just activate your clone and equip your xoris, the clone will keep protea busy and chunk her hp while you can kill the specters and charge the xoris. Easy as pie

[H4v3l0ck_V3t1n4r1]

Nezha, no problems.

[IRON5LLAMA]

On 2020-06-14 at 8:39 PM, Pavelord said:

I went with Oberon, there are other frames with healing abilities, weapons like furis with winds of purity and other resources to keep health like health restores, what frame are you using?

Ok I'll have to build Obreon then. So far I've tried it with Rhino, Chroma, Excalibur, and Limbo. 

[gaogrir]

Oberon with Hunter Adrenaline lets you facetank all day long.

Do stay clear of her warfans though, they are quite nasty.

[ILOHARTA]

my Octavia danced while everything killed itself to oblivion on the first attempt...

[Shalath]

I took my Rhino and breezed it on the first try.

[--K--Sharkfin]

I heard other people saying invisibility works well. I am not sure if protea has any anti-invisible abilities though.

[Pavelord]

I went with Oberon, there are other frames with healing abilities, weapons like furis with winds of purity and other resources to keep health like health restores, what frame are you using?

[Teksorbkyva]

Spoiler

EDIT: Nvm, I'm a dumbass and didn't read that you're having trouble tanking her. She's definitely going to be hard at your level. Bring your best, I guess, or just wait. I think you can still do Granum Void stuff even without completing the quest.

When you kill the Granum specters, note the wispy particles they leave behind. The Xoris can absorb them, enhancing the explosion after absorbing 3. Similar to how you saved the Solaris prisoners, trigger the explosion on her when she begins to rewind. Rinse and repeat 4 times.

P.S.: Xoris is actually pretty cool as it has infinite combo duration, decent crit, and a large explosion radius. If you do wind up scrapping it at some point, you will find future Granum Void expeditions to be much more difficult. You can get the blueprint and parts for another Xoris from Cephalon Simaris, but they cost a lot of standing so I would recommend keeping the Xoris around until you've gotten everything you can out of the Granum Void.